Monday, November 30, 2009

Corporate Cupcakes

It's a busy week here - the start of office holiday parties and a big birthday cake for the end of the week! These are cupcakes we did for an office party at Worldwide Courier. We used a printer that takes edible ink (food color) to print out the logo and attached it to a fondant circle. The cupcakes are red velvet with cream cheese frosting.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Cupcake Gallery

We are happy to announce that our cupcake gallery is officially up on our site! Our cupcakes are baked in all of our delicious flavors and can be custom decorated to suit any event. They are perfect for kids parties, holidays, and a cupcake tower is a creative alternative to a traditional wedding cake. Next, we're working on getting the cookie gallery up!


Saturday, November 21, 2009

Fall Wedding Cupcakes


We made 200 chocolate chip cupcakes with vanilla buttercream for a cupcake tower to serve as the couple's wedding cake for tonight. We made 400(!) sugar leaves to match the couple's fall theme.

Bridal Shower Cupcakes


These festive party streamer cupcakes were for an office bridal shower. The bride's coworkers ordered classic vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. They requested blue and brown accents to reflect the colors of the bridal party. Of course the party streamers are edible! Check back for our final cupcake order this week - fall themed wedding cupcakes.

Birthday Cupcakes


These are cupcakes we did for a 3 year old boy's birthday. The cupcakes are red velvet with vanilla buttercream and the 3s were made out of sugar.

New York Cake Convention

The NY Cake Convention is going to be January 2-5th at 401 Seventh Avenue (at 33rd St. - on the 18th floor) and Pastry Girl Cakes is planning to be there for at least one of those days. I'm looking forward to seeing such cake decorating rock stars as Elisa Strauss from Confetti Cakes, Anne Heap from Pink Cake Box and one of my instructors from culinary school, Toba Garrett.

There will be demos, classes and competitions, and it promises to be very educational. It's hard to decide what to attend because so many of the things being offered seem interesting. However, the cost of all the events will definitely help us limit! Check out the website to register for the event. Hope to see you there!

Free Tasting at J. Crew!

Pastry Girl Cakes will be at J. Crew's new bridal location at 99 Prince Street in Soho on Saturday, January 23rd. We'll be handing out free samples and will be available to answer any of your questions. The time is TBD, but we will update our blog and website when we have more information.


Here are some pictures of the last event we did. This was at Crate & Barrel's Wedding Registry Event in Soho. Normally, I just wear my chef coat for tastings but this event was in the evening and was organized to be like a dinner party so I went fancy! The staff at Crate & Barrel designed a beautiful display with candles and graciously let us showcase our pastries on their cake stands.

Guests sampled our rich chocolate cake with classic vanilla buttercream, our southern red velvet cake with sweet cream cheese frosting and also our hint-of-lemon cake paired with refreshing lemon buttercream. We will be doing more Crate & Barrel events in 2010 and will keep you posted on those dates.








Pastry Girl Cakes' First Blog Post!

Even though we have our website up and running and our Facebook fan page to post the latest details, I thought it would be nice to have a space where I could include more information about our pastries.
This latest cake was for an 85th birthday and included all of the birthday girl’s favorite pastimes: knitting, drinking a cup of tea and eating her peppermints. This cake was especially fun because it really represented the recipient and we were able to focus on the small details like painting a delicate china pattern and including her name on the teabag.

The cake was rich chocolate and the filling was dark chocolate ganache and raspberry preserves. The basket, balls of yarn and teacup were all made of cake and the yarn, teabag and saucer were made out of sugar. I made the yarn using Makin's Professional Ultimate Clay Extruder. The gun is really easy to use and comes with 20 discs.

This week we have a few cupcake orders and look forward to sharing the finished product!